Overview

• Sheriff Rowell placed Deputy Alexander Zwinck on three weeks of unpaid leave, Deputy Erik Olson on two weeks, suspended Sgt. Joe LeMoine for two days and reassigned them off the Western Colorado Task Force
• An internal review found Zwinck, Olson and two supervisors violated agency policy by sharing Dias-Goncalves’s personal information with federal immigration agents via a Signal chat
• Mesa County Sheriff’s Office and Colorado State Patrol have discontinued the multi-agency Signal chat used to relay information to ICE following the review
• Rowell apologized to Dias-Goncalves for the office’s role in her 15-day ICE detention and said internal training and discipline should replace external legal action
• Attorney General Phil Weiser’s lawsuit against Deputy Zwinck under Colorado’s new sanctuary law remains pending as Rowell urges its dismissal